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• The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

  George Harrison

  Blessing, World, Saved

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• Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Blessing, Guarantees That, Risk

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Patience, Years

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Blessing, Men, Knowing

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bores You, Solitude, Novelists

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Numbers, America

  Billy Graham (1995). “Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Soul

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

  Blessing, Self, Steps

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• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

  Muriel Spark

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Doctors of Philosophy: A Play”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Listening To Others, Bores You, Effective Listening

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

  Ruth Gordon

  Birthday, Inspiration, Temples

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• The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

  Osbert Lancaster

  Blessing, Enthusiasm, Too Much

  Osbert Lancaster (1958). “Here, of All Places”

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Mean, Blessing

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.55, Univ of California Press

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• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Blessing, Progress, Society

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  Cecil Beaton

  World, Firsts, Crime

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• A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Great Day, Would Be, Poet

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• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Faces, Bores

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.100, Verso

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• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  James Galway

  Running, Blessing, Routine

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• Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

  James Hillman

  Love, Imagination, Firsts

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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